DramaComedy

Treasure

- It wouldn't be a family trip without a few breakdowns

A music journalist accompanies her father, a charmingly stubborn Holocaust survivor, on a journey to his homeland. While she's eager to make sense of her family's past, her dad has an agenda of his own.

Release Date : 2024-06-13

Language :EnglishGermanPolish

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Seven ElephantsGood Thing GoingHaïku FilmsFilmNation EntertainmentLava FilmsAlamode FilmproduktionMagic MediaKings & Queens FilmproduktionARTECreative Europe MediaHaut et Court

Production Country : FranceGermanyUnited States of AmericaPolandHungaryBelgium

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Ruth

Original Name : Lena Dunham

Gender : Female

Character Name : Edek

Original Name : Stephen Fry

Gender : Male

Character Name : Stefan

Original Name : Zbigniew Zamachowski

Gender : Male

Character Name : Zofia

Original Name : Iwona Bielska

Gender : Female

Character Name : Karolina

Original Name : Maria Mamona

Gender : Female

Character Name : Antoni

Original Name : Wenanty Nosul

Gender : Male

Character Name : Irena Ulicz

Original Name : Klara Bielawka

Gender : Female

Character Name : Zuzanna Ulicz

Original Name : Magdalena Celówna-Janikowska

Gender : Female

Character Name : Tadeusz

Original Name : Tomasz Włosok

Gender : Male

Character Name : Anna

Original Name : Sandra Drzymalska

Gender : Female

Character Name : Gosia

Original Name : Sławomira Łozińska

Gender : Female

Character Name : Hotel Manager

Original Name : Robert Besta

Gender : Male

Character Name : Musician Szymek

Original Name : Ralph Kaminski

Gender : Male

Character Name : Female Vendor

Original Name : Karolina Kominek

Gender : Female

Character Name : Receptionist Hotel Warsaw

Original Name : Magdalena Smalara

Gender : Female

Character Name : Bernd Seifert

Original Name : André Hennicke

Gender : Male

Character Name : German Woman

Original Name : Petra Zieser

Gender : Female

Character Name : Witek

Original Name : Oliver Ewy

Gender : Male

Character Name : Michal

Original Name : David Krzysteczko

Gender : Male

Character Name : Managerin

Original Name : Monika Obmalko

Gender : Female

Character Name : Hotelgast

Original Name : Dennis Papst

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Victor Pape-Thies

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Tomek Nowicki

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Izabela Gwizdak

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Adam Venhaus

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Oliver Polak

Gender : Male

Reviews

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2024-06-20

American journalist "Ruth" (Lena Dunham) had long planned a trip from the USA to her ancestral home in Poland only to find her effervescent father "Edek" (Stephen Fry) has decided to join her. A fluent speaker and full of a slightly annoying joie de vivre, they embark on a trip to the tourist sites, but that's not what she wants. She wants to head to the family home in Łódź where they were a successful industrial family before the Nazi's confiscated their wealth, property and sent "Edek" and his wife to Auschwitz. What is clear is that dad is not so keen on this itinerary, nor is he at all keen on train travel - and the remainder of the film takes us on a family journey that will open the eyes of the daughter whilst bringing back the demons for the father. This tries quite effectively at times to introduce some humour into what is quite an emotional topic, especially when their trip does eventually take them (and us) to his haunting place of incarceration where he finds a flood of memories readily come back to him. Fry over-eggs the accent a bit, but he does manage to convey something of the harrowing nature of his incarceration, and of his mind's determination to protect itself from opening that door to trauma again. Dunham also serves well enough as his independently-minded daughter to support that increasingly troubled characterisation. It's quite a poignant drama that encourages us, as D-Day 80 is still fresh in the mind - to imagine the horrors visited on the Polish people by the Nazis and to realise that in many cases (this is set in 1991) their houses and businesses were still pretty much as they were left in 1941 - only largely dilapidated and with new, poverty-stricken occupants. I did rather like the conclusion - it poses quite an interesting question about what we might do in her place. As a drama, it maybe doesn't need the cinema, but the photography at the now silenced death camp is still blood-curdling.